Tyreek Hill had touchdowns receiving and on a punt return, Kansas City's defense made life miserable for Oakland quarterback Derek Carr, and the Chiefs beat the Raiders, 21-13, on a frigid Thursday night to take control of the AFC West. Charcandrick West also had a touchdown run for the Chiefs...

New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul is going to miss the rest of the regular season after surgery to repair a sports hernia. The 27-year-old old tweeted on Wednesday that he had surgery and was feeling well. Pierre-Paul sustained the injury in the second quarter of Sunday's loss to...

Judging from the biblical proportions of wailing and teeth-gnashing by Rams fans this week, one might think Jeff Fisher is actually going to coach their team beyond this season. Chill out, everyone. He’s probably not. Unless the Rams undergo a sudden transformation in their final four games, it...

The Louisiana man who fatally shot ex-NFL player Joe McKnight during a road rage dispute was jailed on a manslaughter charge as a sheriff angrily defended the investigation Tuesday, saying authorities "strategically" waited for days to make the arrest because they needed to find independent witnesses....

Things aren't always as they appear. That was Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz's message to the public in the wake of his unit's latest meltdown in a 32-14 setback at Cincinnati. The effort was there, he insists. The confidence and energy was not. "Sometimes there might be...

Boys just want to have fun. Andrew Luck certainly didn't have any when he sat out a Thanksgiving night loss with a concussion. He made up for it very nicely Monday night in a 41-10 romp past the inept New York Jets. "To get back out there and do some decent things, that's fun," Luck said after...

Eric Berry returned an interception for a touchdown, and then brought back another pick for a two-point conversion that gave the Kansas City Chiefs an improbable 29-28 victory over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. The Falcons, rallying from a 27-16 deficit, went ahead 28-27 on Matt Ryan's five-yard...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers ended the New York Giants' winning streak with a familiar formula. Ben Roethlisberger passed for 289 yards and two touchdowns, Le'Veon Bell rolled up 182 yards of total offense, and Pittsburgh's resurgent defense harassed Eli Manning into a flurry of mistakes...

From the opening kickoff to the final play, the Philadelphia Eagles never had a chance against the Cincinnati Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday. The Bengals, behind an extraordinary passing performance by Andy Dalton (23-for-31, 332 yards, two TDs) and a defense that limited the Eagles to...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — "No risk it, no biscuit" was back for the Arizona Cardinals. So was the big play. The result was a much-needed 31-23 victory over the Washington Redskins on Sunday. Carson Palmer threw for 300 yards and three touchdowns and David Johnson scored twice on another dynamic afternoon...

Derek Carr threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns to rally the Oakland Raiders to their biggest comeback in 16 years with a 38-24 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. After falling behind by 15 points, 24-9, following touchdowns on the first two drives of the second half for Buffalo (6-6),...

Rams Coach Jeff Fisher has received a contract extension, a person with knowledge of the situation said. Fisher is in the final season of a five-year contract that pays him $7 million a year. The Rams are 4-7 this season and Fisher has a 31-43-1 record with the Rams heading into Sunday’s game against...

One car rear-ends another on a Saturday night. People argue. It escalates. Ten or so gunshots later, one driver is dead and the other waits nervously to give his side of the story to police. Conflicts settled by gunfire are tragically common in New Orleans but there was nothing routine about this...

What’s up with the voices of quarterbacks? With all that yelling at the line...

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What’s up with the voices of quarterbacks? With all that yelling at the line...